Word: bred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worry! Etc. isn't grim. The play's main excuse for entertainment (it is supposed to be funny) is the debunking of Tom and Teena by Razz and Pinky (orphan Tom's fairy guardian) and then the tender undercutting of Pinky and Mrs. Bigelow (Teena's Greenwich-bred mother...
...Island, Ga., where Michael Anderson vacations, is small (five miles by two miles), immaculately clean and sedate, and mostly favored by reasonably well-to-do and well-bred Southern families and honeymooners who like Southern ways, though a fair number of Midwesterners and Yankees show up each year also. Sea Island is geared to outdoor living?golf and swimming particularly, and an old-fashioned barbecue is a week-end attraction. The atmosphere is more like that of a club than an ordinary resort since most of the guests return more than once. Social life centers around the main building...
...their wives) may stumble over the local language, bruise local sensibilities, and hanker to return to the center of power back at the home office. For this reason-and for a lot of others-U.S. companies are increasingly turning over control of their foreign outposts to European-bred local managers. Says Arthur K. Watson, chairman of IBM's international subsidiary: "It is far easier to develop company spirit in a European than it is for an American to develop an understanding of a foreign country's history, culture and customs - to say nothing of its language...
...list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language (dawn, hush, lullaby, murmuring, tranquil, mist, luminous, chimes, golden, melody) and the ten most overworked (okay, terrific, lousy, definitely, racket, gal, honey, swell, contact, impact'). He even compiled a canine dictionary of 204 words that every well-bred dog should understand, ranging from a basic siccum to slippers and ice cream...
Four Under Two. Sired by the great stallion Adios, whose sons and daughters have won more than $14 million, Bret owes his name to the fact that he was bred by Pennsylvania's Hanover Shoe Farms, which is owned by the board chairman of Hanover Shoe Co., and has been producing champions for 39 years. A Cleveland coal broker, Richard Downing, paid $50,000 for the colt at a yearling sale in 1963, turned him over to Trainer Ervin, who was on the verge of retiring after more than 5,500 victories on the track. Ervin took the budding...